If however we could indeed merge our own intelligence with an artificial intelligence then interstellar journeys become tenable with the existing
technology we have at our disposal. Might take awhile all the same(10000 years or so, journey time).

Look at it this way, once we create an intelligence unbound by mortality and that learns exponentially the materials and capability to travel at
superluminal velocity are going to materialize sooner or later.

You would need to define the level of consciousness and how it arrived at that level. It's not such a black and white thing lol.

Why not re-define that as 'self aware' then, and with the inherent conviction to remain so?
Hows that sound?

Self-aware? Again, it would be programmed to be so. Unless it naturally developed the trait through programming anomolies. But even then, it would
still only be a thing, a machine made by us with programming.

Now. If you're on about something like a hybrid animal and machine then, sure, morality (to a degree) would play a part. But as a meat eater, the
morality would be minimal.

It's just a tough subject because there's not any parameters. AI covers too large an area and consciousness in humans has yet to be truely defined.

"I thought about AI just making AI 2.0 however Frankenstein made monster 2.0 and it didn't work too well."

AI would not be bound by our limited perspective or capability's through, cant make an omelette without breaking a few eggs. I think it would work out
just fine, after all us clever Monkeys manage to reproduce.

Keep in mind as well any AI we do create would not experience emotions in the same manner as we do down to the fact that its above biology at least in
the way that we look at the subject. So morality is pretty much neither here nor there.

Why does it 'have' to be sentient? If sentient its not a robot anymore. Your average drone is way more intelligent than anyone, it can fly,
triangulate its position and autonomously hover until its allowed to destroy its enemies.

Perfect_robot.

It obeys every command. Who cares if its aware of its deeds or not? In fact, they prefer it isn't.

But can a drone paint a masterpiece or create a musical symphony? It pretty much cannot do anything other than its programmed to do. It may be able to
implement mathematical programming to accomplish a task better than any human but it cannot break the bounds of its own program.

Why does it 'have' to be sentient? If sentient its not a robot anymore. Your average drone is way more intelligent than anyone, it can fly,
triangulate its position and autonomously hover until its allowed to destroy its enemies.

It's important to understand they "they" (military and numerous tech giants, universities & such [Google in particular]) are already deep into the
MASSIVE long running initiative to build 'Skynet'.

We're not just facing a CHAPPiE. We're facing a global network harnessing the entire internet, essentially every computer module hooked to it. For for
military and surveillance purposes for the most part. This includes the robots!

And much much more when it all goes online, assuming it isn't already, yet for whatever stage of maturity its already at (its not just flicking a
switch we're talking about here), its or its various facets are already 'hooked in'.

We're facing a global network harnessing the entire internet, essentially every computer module hooked to it. For for military and surveillance
purposes for the most part. This includes the robots!

Agreed. for control under the constant threat of annihilation. All that 'intel' feeding to the very top, a megalomaniacal control freak of a wretched
human being. Who would never allow any questioning of orders or debate.

In the end humanity will build its own God. Possibly because we are looking for judgment?

The notion of the state, like religion is to build a belief in the system as absolute, just like organized religion does. The whole idea is to plant a
'supreme undefeatable' (so why bother trying) "Being" in everyones minds.

I can imagine an AI leading the troops in prayer, can you?

Not...

I can also imagine a super duper predator AI robot being totally defeated by a child with a can of spray paint.

Prayer and/or mantras are in essence is a form of program, so it may not be that far fetched.

"I can also imagine a super duper predator AI robot being totally defeated by a child with a can of spray paint."

An AI wont be confined to a body, even a robotic one, it will be free to walk the information nets in the same manner as we cross a field or a street.
So i imagine that any child wishing to wage war against such an entity would require more than spay paint. It would not be a David and Goliath
scenario, it would be a David versus an infinite amount of Goliath's.

originally posted by: andy06shake
Keep in mind as well any AI we do create would not experience emotions in the same manner as we do down to the fact that its above biology at least in
the way that we look at the subject. So morality is pretty much neither here nor there.

With greater understanding they could also be even more emotional. Either way it's a guess however by the time we know for sure it will be too late.

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